[Klug-general] Motor system on GPIO Raspberry Pi

[Kevin Groves]

I was thinking about posting about it today...

On 22/10/13 06:02, Thomas Edward Groves wrote:
> I haven't seen it.
> And purely out of interest but: when's the next meeting? And where?
> The silence is sounding ominous.
> Tom
>
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>     *From:* Kevin Groves <mailto:kgroves at ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk>
>     *To:* Kent Linux User Group - General Topics
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>     *Sent:* Monday, October 21, 2013 6:45 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Klug-general] Motor system on GPIO Raspberry Pi
>
>     you should. cant remember if ive brought in my arduino tank....
>
>     On 21/10/13 18:07, Nathan Friend wrote:
>>     James - Raspberry Pi running a motor, demo at Klug please.
>>
>>     Nathan.
>>
>>
>>     On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:lentonp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Sorry, to clarify:
>>
>>         Type "cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python\ programs" to make
>>         LXTerminal understand that there's a space in the path.
>>
>>         I was typing the reply on my phone and hit send before I
>>         meant to, so thought I'd clarify =)
>>
>>         Cheers
>>
>>         On 20/10/13 20:45, james snyder wrote:
>>>
>>>         Re: GPIO
>>>
>>>         Some new students need help running a GPIO system on a model
>>>         B raspberry pi running Raspberian Linux, so I am forwarding
>>>         this message to our KLUG group mailing list on their behalf....
>>>
>>>         "We have connected the motor and battery to the GPIO RPi .
>>>         We have saved a Python program (developed using the Python
>>>         Shell) in :
>>>         /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs
>>>         If we click on: Python programs, we see the file: motor.py
>>>
>>>         The problem is
>>>
>>>         when we open LXTerminal we type:
>>>         cd /home/pi/Desktop/Python programs (is where our motor.py is)
>>>         We get the error message
>>>         "No such file or directory"
>>>
>>>         We have formatted another Raspberian SD Card from scratch.
>>>
>>>         In order to make our motor to work we need to use LXTerminal
>>>         to find a directory where we have saved our file, and once
>>>         we are in the directory we have to run the command: sudo
>>>         python motor.py  to start our motor but LXTerminal says "No
>>>         such file""
>>>
>>>         Without actually seeing the system, based on the above log,
>>>         any thoughts on what the problem is here?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>         James Snyder
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